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...votes that fell along party lines. The plan includes $245 billion in tax cuts and $894 billion in spending cuts that hit Medicare, Medicaid and social services heavily. Action now moves to the appropriations committees where,TIME's Karen Tumultyreports, "the real work is already being done." The triumphant GOP package, she adds, falls short of promises by Kasich and others to eliminate a spate of federal agencies and offer $300 billion in tax cuts. The current plan would, however, abolish the Commerce Department...
...deepest pockets of them all? Campaign figures released today sayBob Dole, putative frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, raised more than $9 million over the past three months -- more than twice the amount raised byPhil Gramm, his strongest Republican rival. President Clinton, with $8 million and no Democratic opponent, is coasting...
...Clinton's budget plan. The upside: "Al Gore's Cartoon Gallery," a video clip of Sen. Ted Kennedy reading from James Joyce's "Ulysses" and -- in the tradition of the "Socks" page on the White House Web site -- a discourse on the origin of the Democratic Party donkey. The GOP, whose supporters have a longer Internet track record, is gracious enough to include a link to "Liberal Lies...
...year plan. "The proposal represents a break from the past," Carney says. "What has remained the same is his failure to follow through when he's made major proposals. He's made a big speech, and there's no follow-through in sight." Since Clinton can't veto the GOP budget agreement, Carney adds, the battle now moves to the congressional appropriations committees that craft the actual spending bills...
...budget cuts for the six major federal enforcement agencies even as the workload is expanding due to the passage of new anti-discrimination laws, mainly theAmericans with Disabilities Act. The four Republican appointees to the panel said they would not have released the report, which Democrats approved when three GOP members were absent...